Flavia and her friends return to Rome from Ephesus in the year 81, and when they learn about the mysterious death of Emperor Titus, they investigate, leading to many changes for Italia and for themselves.
Guide covering important personalities, terms, and sites that played a part in Roman evolution from the period of Julius Caesar to the fall of the Empire in the west in 476 A.D. and includes a timeline of the major events of the era.
Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar' daughter and the other becomes a man-eating entertainment act at the Colosseum.
Eleven-year-old Flavia and her friends Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia are invited to visit Pulchra, who asks them to uncover who is trying to poison her mother.
As their gladiator training continues, the enslaved Decimus Rex and his five cellmates are forced to endure a series of public trials in the Arena, including hand-to-hand combat with a fellow slave, under the watchful eye of the trial-master Slavious Doom.
Kidnapped and taken to Arena Primus for training as a potential gladiator, Decimus Rex is intent on escaping captivity and knows the best way to do so is to outshine the other slaves as they endure such trials as running on hot coals.
Suspecting their friend Jonathan is alive, Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus go to Rome for the Colosseum Games, facing wild beasts, criminals, conspirators, and gladiators, and where Nubia is called upon to make a terrible choice.
